Sin Quotes · Page 66

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

— William Ames

Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

— R. C. Sproul

Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.

— Thomas Aquinas

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

— Samuel Rutherford

As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.

— Christina Rossetti

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

— John Darnielle

All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.

— Johnny Hunt

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

— Ravi Zacharias

The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart,…

— William Gurnall

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a…

— Frederick William Robertson

I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's…

— Karen Joy Fowler

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God's thought is always of the…

— Watchman Nee

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the…

— James E. Faust

“The film image of a dead child dressed in blood-red floating, Ophelia-like, in "Don’t Look Now" swam before her eyes. It must…

— Theasa Tuohy

“I need to accept God’s love and forgiveness, turning away from my sin and toward Him starting every day anew just as…

— Teresa Schultz

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence…

— Martin Buber

There is One God and One Mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ (cf. I Tim. 2:5). For He still…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and…

— Yukio Mishima

The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their…

— Mark Driscoll

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness…

— Rajneesh

Many Christians backslide...They are unable to stand against the temptations of the world, or of their old nature. They strive to do…

— Andy Murray

Yes, this world is truly terrible, which is why the pure and the holy come bravely forward: They have decided to eradicate…

— Zhang Xianliang

Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor…

— Alice Munro

Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls…

— Thomas Otway

To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.

— Anonymous

Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.”

— Jessica Fortunato

Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

— Frederick Lenz

You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.

— Corrie Ten Boom

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.

— Philip Sidney

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

— Paula Poundstone

It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

— Dale Ahlquist

“But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?”

— Zadie Smith

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

— Charles Spurgeon

It is no sin to doubt some things but it may be fatal to believe everything.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I preach salvation by grace through faith alone. I preach for the repentance of sin.

— Paula White

In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.

— Bill Johnson

Dont walk on the path of sin, if youre not prepared for the consequences that follow

— Ambri Bright

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

— C. S. Lewis

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

— Thomas Aquinas